The mysteries and miseries of the great metropolis : with some adventures in the country : being the disguises and surprises of a New-York journalist
- Title
- The mysteries and miseries of the great metropolis : with some adventures in the country : being the disguises and surprises of a New-York journalist
- Alternative Titles
- Amateur vagabond
- Name
- Pember, Arthur
- Published
- D. Appleton: New York. 1875
- Physical Description
- v, 462 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Crime and criminals > New York (State) > New York.
- New York (N.Y.) > Poor.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Contents
- The purlieus of Water street after dark.--The amateur beggar.--After the gambling and panel houses.--A visit to Davy Jones's locker.--The bogus doctor.--The amateur curb-stone singer.--Life on the Erie canal.--Night and morning in the Tombs.--String 'em up.--The model coster-monger.--Down in a coal-mine.--Life in a circus.--A ride on an engine.--A night in an underground lodging-house.--The spirit-medium.--Painting à la mode.--The poor prisoner.--The life of a tramp.--The beggars' banquet.--"Been to the mines, sir?"--The peep-show man.--Up and down Mont Blanc.
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